Kalona High School - Centerika Yearbook (Kalona, IA)

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LE SEE EE A A A A A (L(t Oe «oe ) A) EA LE) A) LE |) A) EE) A) A EL ) A) A) A) A) A A EE A) LN) |) A AR AR AL) ) A A) A ( ) A € ) ( A ( A ES SET eA THE CENTERIKA fiaqanSasnenenenenonetatenan 056) (ED) SS) ED) ED () TD () ED ( ) SD () EE () ) |) a ( EE A) EE) ) EEE OS SS) SND OS +¢ THE CENTERIKA Published by Center High School, Kalona, Iowa The Staff Editor ins. Chief sa c2 28 5 ol Oe ee Es ie oe nee Melva Gingerich ASSIStANTSHGItOr sso ee oe ee Dea ee Si ee ek a eae ee Wallace Gingerich Business: Managers 68 5 sees cee seer eine ae ee George Hess and Seth Himen Athletic: Bed it or cess axa acto or ee ee Le Vir Jones Literary: Edit os cc Bete oe ei 2 SR re es Oe Laurine Miller B@ature Ss NGitors tis sess. scecee Cees Shee ee a ence eee ne Ervin Eash SenioraReporterse 5). eer. ak ae een eee Deemer Walter Reber and Walter Marner JUNIOL REPOL CET 7 ose oe ee ee LL ME Ree a Re nee Edna Yoder sophomore: Reporter: cp hee ce i ee ee Emily Slaubaugh Hreshman Reporter 0 eos oe wien eee ee ae ae eee een ae Arline Patterson Faculty Advisers, Literarya. eee ee ee Mrs. Osborn; Business, Mr. Osborn Price per copy, 25 cents. Vol II May, 1929 No. 1 THE NEED OF A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION Just what is the need of a high school education is a question which we hear a great many times. But we all can realize, if we stop to think, the value as well as the need of the high school education. The four year period which we spend in high school delays the choice of our life’s work until we have had a chance to see a little more of life. At the end of the eight years of elementary training, very few of us have had the necessary experience to enable us to choose intelligently the thing we want to do for the rest of our lives. Many who quit school at the end of the eighth grade get into one type of work and stay there. Often they afterwards feel a desire to do something else, but because it is too much effort, they continue in the same old rut. In this case, which is just what happens, the delay of four years with the training of the high school might have helped them to decide on a work better suited to them- selves. The social training which we receive in the high school is of unlimited value to us. The banquets, parties, plays, and other social events of the high school help us to know how to conduct ourselves at gatherings of that sort. The training that we vet there helps us to know how to meet people when we get out in the world. It also helps to choose our friends, those who think clearly, fairly, live right and prove them- selves to be of the highest type of American boy or girl, and those whose aim is not to get all from the world they can but to be of as much service as they can to their fel- lowmen. The high school offers opportunity for self development to those students who have the desire to make more of their lives than do the students who stop at the end cf the eighth grade. Today the uneducated person has no chance in competition with the men and women who are educated. The positions offering the highest salaries are open only to those who have at least gone through high school. The different fields of service demand trained men and women. Teachers, doctors, nurses, and missionar- ies must be trained for their work. If we are to attain a position of influence, we must have a high school education. Through the aid of the mental training we are enabled not only to think clearly, Pee eae a ee Eee RR RT oa eae is Uae Ua aU TTI iS aS RS A) () SD ( AAD ( ) EAD ( ) AD) () () A ( ) TD ¢ ) ERED ( ) ED ( ) RED ( ) ERED () = ( ) ENN ( RENRND- () RD- ( ) ETN ( ) RRND () ERED- ( ) EED ( ) SRNERED- () RE () Q ( ) ARENREND ( ) RD () END ( ) ERED () ANNE ( ) ED () ND () ARNE () ER ( ) SERN () ( ) ER ( ) REE () AND ( ) RN () A) AN () (A ( ) A () () () - () () ( ce SS) A) A) ) A) A) A A) A ( A) A) A) A A A A a OO (eam |) a ( SD () () () e () - ( ee PS ARN () E C) ER () ERA C) LER ©) () ) A (I ) () A () A () AR () RE ( ED) ND ( SEND ( ) AD () ED () D- () D(A () D-( 20 0) AE AE ) LE () (DSO (j LUG UC UCP UU URE UE THE CENTERT A a en: oy M0: ) ) AD) EL () AA ( TD ( ) AC) AA ( A () AAD ( ) ED () AR () GARAND ( ) M ( ) CRER ( ) GRD» { ) AER ( GRRE ( ( ) ERED () GRE () GRE Behe paleelee renal ge